Naming confusion

[Matthew Seaman]

On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 11:58:24AM -0700, Lloyd Hayes wrote:
 
> If I read your answer right, I can put any name in here like 
> "traveler2.hayes.org", and as long as it's connecting to the Internet 
> and it's not a server connected from the Internet, it should be OK. Right?

Well, if this is your machine, and you've paid Netidentity.com for the
rights to use that name from the hayes.org zone they control:

    % host traveler2.hayes.org
    traveler2.hayes.org has address 64.15.175.5

then that's probably fine.  It should work OK off the net.  If you're
using it as a client but from some other IP number, then some things
will work -- web browsing should be fine -- but others won't -- ssh(1)
will throw screaming hissy-fits.  Things like e-mail can be persuaded
to work, assuming you want an address like lloyd at hayes.com or
lloyd at traveller2.hayes.com

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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